Organisations hire individuals who have
talent and skills, but performance and results depend upon these individuals’
ability to work with colleagues and create a team that functions as one unit.
Herein, lies the challenge and the opportunity.
When individuals with high potential
form a circle of trust and cohesiveness, focused on a shared vision, playing
together with passion and high energy, they form a team that is unstoppable and
capable of infinite achievement.
Greater the goal, greater is the need
to build a team that can pool its energies to make it possible. Individual
effort can achieve limited results, but interdependence and synergy can move
mountains. It is this realization that creates a distinction between what could
have been possible, and what is actually achieved.
The whole then becomes greater than the
sum of its parts!
Team
building is hard work. It is a continuous process that never ends. As new
members join a team and some members exit, as the environment rapidly changes
and internal goalposts move, a team has to consistently reinvent and rejuvenate
itself to adapt and meet new challenges that are constantly thrown up for it to
face. Individual identities have to be replaced by shared goals, and the focus
has to be on harnessing individual strengths and resources within. Quest
activities keep throwing up these life like situations to test the teams’
readiness to meet these challenges, and reinforce the positive qualities needed
to constantly adapt, yet hold on to core values that creates world class teams.
Team
building is an art. Activities like the Big Picture and MasterChef sessions
bring out the delicate nuances of team building that involve active and
effective communication. Authentic feedback becomes a way of life, and not a
one off action. Play becomes a means of expressing passion and a desire to win.
It pushes the boundaries of creativity and innovation, and allows participants
to take healthy and productive risks, make the good mistakes, and discover new
possibilities within existing challenges.
Team
building is around a vision. Without a common and shared vision, a team
cannot harness its energy in a common direction. Interventions like the
Firewalk Session, demonstrate the importance of how a Vision and its
communication can ensure fear and doubt has no place in a team. A dynamic and
vibrant team, will keep testing its limits, pushing its boundaries and moving
out if its comfort zone to accomplish extra ordinary goals. When mind wins over
matter, all is possible.
Abraham
Lincoln said, “If I had 6 hours to cut a tree, I would spend the first 4
hours sharpening the axe.” Team building is sharpening the axe. Invest in it,
and its spinoffs are huge. It will astound you, and the results will make you
wish you had done it much earlier.
Team
building is everywhere. In families, communities, societies, corporations and
great nations. Building effective teams needs virtually everything, from
leadership to delegation, from communication to conflict resolution, from
visioning to empowering, from doing to facilitation, the works.
Master
team building, master yourself. The principles of team building are also
applicable in our individual self. Given that we are so full of apparent
contradictions and multiple talents and competencies, we need to channelize and
focus to make ourselves energetic and productive, rather than wasted and blunt.
We need to rise above the inner conflicts and fears, and move towards our
individual dreams and goals with force and vigour.
From group
sizes of 5 to 750, Quest Outbounds provide high end interventions in team
building and new age leadership. We work with select clients, who expect
nothing but the best, and have a burning desire to achieve their extraordinary
dreams!
We facilitate world class teams that deliver results!
To know more, follow the links : outbound team building companies India,
leadership outbound training, team building delhi, team building bengaluru, team building training,
corporate team building
& outdoor team
building activities.
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